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The Reluctant Witness For The Prosecution: Grand Jury Subpoenas To Defense Counsel, Stacy Caplow
The Reluctant Witness For The Prosecution: Grand Jury Subpoenas To Defense Counsel, Stacy Caplow
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Explaining Habeas Corpus, Larry Yackle
Explaining Habeas Corpus, Larry Yackle
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The conventional rationale underlying postconviction habeas corpus in the Federal forum is that the individual's interest in freedom from unlawful detention warrants a second look at Federal claims already rejected by the State courts. The subject-matter jurisdiction of the habeas courts is explicitly limited to petitions from applicants who allege they are in 'custody' in violation of Federal Law. The courts, however, circumvent the 'custody' requirement if it threatens to obstruct effective Federal postconviction review to protect persons from recalcitrant State authorities. The proposed alternative explanation of habeas corpus is that it makes available a Federal forum in which to …
From Sovereignty To Process: The Jurisprudence Of Federalism After Garcia, Andrzej Rapaczynski
From Sovereignty To Process: The Jurisprudence Of Federalism After Garcia, Andrzej Rapaczynski
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On February 19, 1985, the Supreme Court, in Garcia v. San Antonio Metropolitan Transit Authority, overruled its 1976 decision in National League of Cities v. Usery. Although the continued vitality of National League of Cities had been in question in recent years, the Court's abrupt repudiation of the very principle announced in that case is an event of considerable significance, beyond showing, one more time, that the rule of stare decisis has a limited application in the Court's modern constitutional adjudication. Garcia's importance lies, above all, in revealing the absence of anything approaching a well elaborated theory of federalism that …